Ever wanted to know what it is like to conduct research on living animals such as rats? Merle and Alexa sit down with undergraduate student researcher, Ashton Heidt, to discuss animal ethics, how to land an undergraduate research opportunity and the most rewarding part of the research conducted in the lab. Ashton Heidt is currently in fourth year of a BSc (Honours) degree from the College of Arts and Science, majoring in physiology and pharmacology. His research project (with the guidance of Dr. John Howland) investigates how chemical inactivation of a particular brain region will alter performance in working memory tasks for rats.